Materials: the semi-precious stones
Not prints, not tinted resin: real stone, selected and composed into slabs, to be cut and installed like marble. Some are translucent and can be backlit: with light behind them they change character completely.
Architects and designers: every slab is made to measure, with 3D design, CNC cutting and finishing in the workshop. Claddings, worktops, backlit walls, one-off pieces. In the Volargne workshop you can touch them for real.
-
Blue agate
Agate geodes cut and composed into a slab. Translucent: backlit, it reveals the concentric bands of the crystal.
-
Amethyst
Purple quartz crystals composed into a slab. Translucent, suited to backlit walls and worktops.
-
Lapis lazuli
Deep blue with golden pyrite veins. Opaque, polished to a mirror finish for striking surfaces.
-
Malachite
Green with concentric bands, the most recognisable of ornamental stones. Opaque, for surfaces and inlays.
-
Tiger's eye
Golden and brown fibres whose sheen shifts with the light and the viewing angle. Opaque.
-
Wild mother of pearl
Natural mother of pearl in irregular tesserae, iridescent. For claddings and decorative surfaces.
-
Black and white agate
Agate in black and white bands, sharp contrast. Translucent, can be backlit.
-
Brown agate
Agate in brown and amber tones with pale geodes. Translucent, can be backlit.
-
Labradorite
Dark grey with blue and green flashes that appear as you move in front of the slab. Opaque.
-
Petrified wood
Fossilised wood cut in section: the grain is the tree's, the hardness is stone. Opaque.
-
Black fossil stone
Black stone with fossils in section and pale veins. Opaque, for dark surfaces with character.
-
Red jasper and sodalite
Geometric inlay of red jasper and blue sodalite: two opaque stones cut and composed to a pattern.
The photos were taken on the real slabs in the workshop. Every slab is unique: what you receive may differ in the pattern, not in the stone.